First rule of a pirate’s mate, keep yer eye on yer destination, not yer doom.

He finally had a reason to live, just in time to die.

She tasted like run, root beer, and something wild he couldn’t place, but it didn’t matter. He wanted more. Craved it.

If you could see your whole life laid out before you, there’d be no reason to live it, right?

I thought you only had eyes for your ship.” God, she was beautiful. “Until I met you.

She smiled, and his dead heart warmed. One smile would never be enough.

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.

All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.

"Well? Is it true? Did she?" "Did she what?" "You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?"

I think I've been a great citizen.

Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use her compulsion for your own psycho plans.

None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.